Mrs. Susan Hart Neville: "Oh, Mr. President, it is so good of you to call on me. Won't you please walk into the parlor and sit down?" President Wilson: "I haven't time to sit down. Your house is on fire."

Wilson was vacationing in Pass Christian, Mississippi, when, passing in his automobile, he saw flames emerging from a roof. He later wrote Mrs. Neville, "I shall never cease to be gratified that our machine passed so opportunely."